The number of those dreaming of becoming idols is increasing every year. It is estimated that, including those trainees at management agencies, about one million are aspiring to be entertainers. According to the status analysis of youth entertainers conducted by Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, however, many young rights, the right to study, etc. This study, therefore, looked into the real situation of idol trainees by analyzing media texts. In doing so, the study examined the trainee training systems of different management agencies and the pre-debut process that young trainees aspiring to be entertainers go through, and gained an understanding of the psychological maladjustment they experience. Based on these, the study discusses the followings. First, as one axis of entertainer training systems of management agencies, personality development education and psychiatric counseling need to be systemized. Second, the existing training system needs to be changed. As it requires trainees to stay together, their relationships with their families and friends can be hurt. Third, trainees themselves should make an effort to find their own identities to have mental stability. Lastly, all the sectors in the entertainment industry need to pitch in to find different and realistic ways to support them, and the current broadcasting environment where competition is encouraged needs to be changed as well.

This study was conducted for the purpose of discovering deficiencies within education- related assistance projects of private organizations that provide educational programs for developing countries. Based on the dynamic graph and educational performance of the educational ODA of 11 private institution, the adequacy of the educational projects was analyzed in terms of the following four factors: ‘Improvement of educational environment and expansion of educational opportunities’, ‘Educational system competency’, ‘Competency of education recipients’ and ‘Community formation and social reform’. The analysis found that two institutions were conducting programs corresponding to 3 out of the 4 factors while the remaining nine were conducting programs to achieve two factors. That is, the 11 institutions were appropriately carrying out educational ODA projects. To further invigorate ODA, however, it was found that it will be necessary to reinforce ‘social reform’ through ‘educational system competency’ or ‘community formation.’ This study is meaningful in that as it used a methodology that had never been used before, and analyzed the educational ODA of private institutions.

Jeju Haenyeo have been playing a crucial role in Jeju economy for a long time. However, the number of Jeju Haenye has decreased since the 1970s, despite the efforts from the government and Jeju Provincial Office including a variety of welfare and benefits. In order to understand the unique culture of Jeju Haenyeo, and to provide a good program to help transfer their muljil skills, a qualitative research including in-depth interviews and participant observation in combination of an ethnographic method was performed. For the qualitative research, the interview preparation was reviewed, the language and culture of local communities were understood, and the location of the researcher was determined. Then, the following procedures were carried out; selecting informants, gaining their confidence, forming a rapport with them, and collecting data. For a preliminary survey, The first author visited Jeju alone for 10 days from late June to early July in 2015. The first author walked around the area and observed the dialects and life of local people from the viewpoint of an outsider. For interviews, four still active and three former Jeju Haenyeo were selected from skilled workers with diving experience of at least 20 to 60 years. The transfer of Jeju Haenyeo’s muljil skills, and their education and training vary, depending on the community culture of each village. As a result, the transfer of Jeju Haenyeo’s muljil skills is carried out not just at the level of maternal succession, but it is also performed by the village community that participate in co-childcare and joint training of diving skills.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the application of a web-based cost management competency enhancement program (Web-CMCEP) on nursing students. Medical services are limited and essential for maintenance of human basic life. In order to improve the quality of human life, cost management competency that enable efficient allocation of medical resources are essential. This study adopts a randomized controlled pre/post repeated measure design. The sample comprised 39 nursing students in the web-group and 35 in the textbook-group. Experimental group and control group learned respectively with Web- CMCEP and textbook for 4 weeks. The research variables were measured at 4 times: pre, post, after 4 weeks of intervention, and after 8 weeks of intervention. Data were analyzed using χ2 -test, t-test, paired t-test, repeated measures ANOVA, Friedman test, and Wilcoxon signed rank test. Significant differences were found in cost management knowledge. The web-group showed higher cost management knowledge than the text-group. At different measuring points, the Web-CMCEP led to significant increases in the following: cost management knowledge, cost management attitude, cost management behavior, cost management self-efficacy, and entrepreneurship. Based on the findings, we suggested utilizing the Web-CMCEP as a prototype in developing education programs to improve nursing students’ cost management competency and to support nursing start-ups.

This study recognizes the seriousness of poverty experienced by elderly women in Korea and to examine the relationship between various variables based on their understanding of the happiness they seek. For this purpose, a questionnaire survey was conducted on 293 poor elderly women over the age of 65 on social policy, social support, and happiness. From the collected data, it was confirmed whether satisfaction with two social policies, the national pension and the basic pension, affects the happiness of the poor. And it analyzed whether social support acts as a mediator in the path of the research model designed in this study. The analysis results of this study are as follows. First, through the verification, the reliability of the measured variables was secured, and it has been confirmed that the model designed in this study is a model that describes the relationship between social policy and the happiness of poor elderly women. Second, as a result of analyzing the effect of social policy on the happiness of the elderly in poverty, it was found that the national pension system and the basic pension system had a significant positive effect on the happiness of the poor elderly women. Finally, it was analyzed that there was a more positive effect when there was a mediating effect of social support in the relationship between social policy and the happiness of poor elderly women. Furthermore, based on the results of this study, the policy and practice direction for improving the happiness of the elderly in poverty were presented.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the contribution of the local government’s policy experiments to the development of community welfare, focusing on the political efficacy of local governments: When attempting innovative policy experiments, the cost of failure is small while the ripple effect is large. In particular, from the perspective of ‘cost-efficient innovation’, this paper analyzes the mechanism of local government’s welfare politics (i.e. policy experiments of local governments → improving efficiency and effectiveness of community welfare → local social innovation → enhancing citizens’ quality of life). Through these analyses, this paper argues that the welfare politics of Local Autonomous Entity, including local governments, should be activated in order to continuously develop South Korea’s community welfare. This is because it is politics that can change a series of systems and culture that surround us. This paper is divided into three parts. First, a review on the basics needed to politically understand South Korea’s community welfare. Second, an exploration on how the local government’s ‘innovative policy experiments’ are developing community welfare. Third, an emphasis on the significance of politics in the development of community welfare, and some suggestions for vitalizing the welfare politics of local governments in South Korea.